Originally Posted by phoebeisis

$5-??
a bike shop in china or south america would do it for $5
Here?? USA?? They can't make a living charging $5 for machine work.
Folks ask for How to fix it advice-and your advice "bring it to a bike shop it will be cheap"
It is NEVER cheap-even cheap stuff isn't cheap.
And DIY cleaning up threads-is a useful skill-it would take maybe 10-15 minutes-
and the triangular file-useful tool
Hauling it to bike shop-+$20